"Excipulum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... somewhat contracted, and minutely wrinkled when dry; every part a deep verdigris-green, the disc often becoming paler with a tinge of tan color; 1-4 mm. across; stem 1-3 mm. long, expanding into the ascophore; hypothecium and excipulum formed of interlaced, hyaline hyphae, 3-4u. thick, these becoming stouter and colored green in the cortex; asci narrowly cylindric-clavate, apex slightly narrowed, 8-spored; spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline ...
— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard |
